Printable view of Sheryl L. Nelms

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Clyde, TX

Texas US

Email:

slnelms@aol.com

Bio:

My goal since 1979 has been to have something in the mail every Friday. It works. I've had over 5,000 stories, articles and poems published in textbooks, anthologies and magazines. Fourteen collections of my poems have also been published. My poems have been used on TV, CD's, audio tapes for the blind, in Braille, on PBS radio and in mail art shows including a show in Osaka, Japan.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Marysville

Raised in:

Wichita, KS

Prizes won:

Shultz-Werth Research Award at South Dakota State University with $500 1st Prize for poetry manuscript, Worms After A Hard Rain. 1995 Pegasus Award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for Land of the Blue Paloverde, a book of poetry. Also won over 100 other writing prizes.

What I'm reading now:

The Night of the Gun by David Carr

Cut by Cathy Glass

Street Kid by Judy Westwater

Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts

Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin

Identifies as:

English American

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any